"It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday."

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Source : Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.

Leopold Infeld

#Sunday Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Transition Quotes

“White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.”

Source : Ward Churchill, M. Annette Jaimes (1992). “Fantasies of the master race: literature, cinema and the colonization of American Indians”, Common Courage Pr
“Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.”
“My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.”
“Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.96
“We should all rehearse and practise the positives in our life, rather than doing what so many people do.”
“Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.”
“Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.”

Source : Lisa Birnbach (1980). “The official preppy handbook”, Workman Publishing
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”

Source : Letter to H. G. Wells, 10 July 1915

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